I couldn't resist one more post on Obama/Gates/Crowley. I just loved this cartoon from the Cleveland Plain Dealer's Editorial Cartoonist, Jeff Darcy. Image Source: Cleveland.com
I'm probably the only Faculty Lounger nerdy enough to care about this, but here goes...The LONG awaited TRON sequel, Tron Legacy, is due to arrive in theaters in 2010/2011. There's…
In what I *promise* (fingers crossed behind my back) will be my last post on the Gates/Obama/Crowley media triangle, I wanted to share a website that includes two poems about…
I think I read somewhere in the New York Times this weekend that President Obama described the incident involving the arrest of his friend, Harvard Prof Henry Gates and its…
I've been following the discussions of Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr's arrest on the blogs and elsewhere, including today's report on CNN quoting President Obama saying that the police had…
I attended a seminar on university leadership today. Here's some random impressions. 1. We did lots of talking about the importance of listening (but not much actual listening). I guess…
After Mark and Kim's posts on Moon Day yesterday, and my comments about what percentage of Cleveland radio listeners still believe the moon landing was a hoax, I was interested in today's…
I know it's only July, but I guess it's time to start planning for the fall submission season. A colleague helpfully pointed me to a document on SSRN by Profs…
Elizabeth Nowicki has an interesting series of posts over at Concurring Opinions (see here, here, and here) about race and gender discrimination in legal academia. One intriguing question she poses…
We recently received a request at the Lounge to do a post on plagiarism in law schools from someone who said that (s)he had experienced significant instances of plagiarism in…